*** From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jadwiga i Stanislaw Checinscy) > Przesylam z prosba o powiadomienie wszystkich przyjaciol > i znajomych oraz organizacje. > > Pozdrawiam serdecznie > Jadwiga Checinska > Phoenix, Arizona, USA > ============================================= > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Frank Milewski > To: Checinska, Jadwiga > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 1:44 PM > Subject: Poland's 9/1 and Start of WW II > > NEWS from THE POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESS > HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTATION COMMITTEE > 177 Kent St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11222 (718) 384-2584 > > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2002 > > > AS 9/11 ANNIVERSARY NEARS, HITLER'S > 9/1 INVASION OF POLAND REMEMBERED > > America's "War on Terrorism" began with the September > 11th surprise attack on the World Trade Center and the > Pentagon. In 1939, a similar sneak attack started World War II. > > On September 1st that year, Adolf Hitler unleashed the > overwhelming air, land and sea power of Nazi Germany > against the people of Poland and drew the rest of the world > into a bloody killing spree that would last another six years. > > New York's Polish American community will mark this tragic > anniversary with a solemn commemorative mass at St. Stanislaus > Bishop & Martyr Church at 107 E. 7th Street in downtown > Manhattan on Sunday, September 1st starting at noon. It was > the first church established by Polish immigrants who arrived > in the city in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Rev. > Christopher Wieliczko, a member of the Pauline Order and > pastor there, will be the celebrant. > > Churches serving Polish American communities elsewhere > in the metropolitan New York area have scheduled > > > concurrent observances. Along with St. Stanislaus, > they will commence tolling their bells in mournful > remembrance of the event that noon. > > Rev. Peter Zendzian, who heads the Polish Apostolate > of Brooklyn and is pastor of Holy Cross Church in > Maspeth, Queens, is coordinating the area observances > together with the Polish American Congress. > Commemorating the anniversary has a special personal > meaning for Rev. Zendzian since his father was a survivor > of a German concentration camp. > > "We are remembering one of humanity's saddest catastrophes > World War II," Rev. Zendzian said, observing that the > Germans "targeted Catholic Poland to be the first victim > of a campaign to slaughter millions of God-fearing innocents." > > The ferocity and brutality with which the Nazis dealt with > Poland was the direct result of the order Adolf Hitler gave > his generals just ten days before the September 1st invasion. > On the wall at the entrance to its Polish exhibit, > the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. > has inscribed the exact words of Hitler's barbaric command > to kill "without pity or mercy all men, women and children > of Polish race or language." > > Although World War II officially ended in 1945 with the > defeat of Nazi Germany, there was no such termination > of it for Poland. Communist armed forces of the Soviet > Union remained in the country to back up an oppressive > atheistic system that replaced the Nazis' reign of terror > with one of their own. Only after the fall of Communism > in 1989 could the Polish people consider their ordeal as > finally over. For this reason, many Poles regard > World War II as their nation's "Fifty Year War," according > to the Polish American Congress. > > Participating in the religious commemoration at the > East 7th St. church will be concentration camp survivors, > veterans of the Polish Army who fought the Nazis, > as well as former members of Poland's Home Army > (Armia Krajowa), the largest and most effective underground > resistance group in all German-occupied Europe. > Many of them are members of the Polish American Congress. > > > > A reception will follow immediately after the religious > ceremonies. > . > Contact: Frank Milewski > (718) 263-2700 > =========================================== > >
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